Not sure the location where some of these statements are being made. In the US, unless someone is aware of some law about it, all employer supplied equipment can be monitored for everything - period. The employer does not have to have cause for monitoring and even if they did, they could easily side step it by claiming intellectual rights or security monitoring. MS products such as Teams and Outlook (365) in particular goes as far as providing tooling to allow real-time monitoring of everything going on, so soon as you press enter on that chat message, it's recorded. If you delete it, that update to it is also recorded. Best rule of thumb when using company property and actually on company property is not to do/say anything you wouldn't be prepared to defend to HR/manager. Got to love technology...
I agree with the comments however in the video the message that I'm trying to convey based on my experience is that employers are not actively spending effort monitoring employee communications unless they have a reason to do so. Your rule of thumb is spot on also! Thanks for comment and for watching!
what if the company terminated my access because I'm no longer working with the company. How long they can access my messages in teams. Do they have easy access or they need a powerful tool to do it?
This is not a complex process and in fact displays how easy it is to view private messages. Once the data is queried in Purview it can be downloaded as a JSON/CSV file, significantly simplifying data extraction and visualisation
Thank you for this video, very informative. Quick question, I ran a report, it informs me I have 65 items, when I click "review sample", it informs me there is no data available. Am i missing something?
You're very welcome. Unfortunately, I've never experienced this issue before. I'd suggest posting this over on the Microsoft Tech Community as someone else might have and may have some insights as to why this is happening. Hope this helps. techcommunity.microsoft.com/
This is an excellent question. I am sure that all create, retrieve, update, delete actions would be logged somewhere but I have never tried to find this myself. I'd suggest posting this over on the Microsoft Tech Community as someone else might have the answer. Hope this helps. techcommunity.microsoft.com/
It is highly unlikely that you would ever been given access to these logs without a highly compelling reason. The smaller the company, the better chance for shenanigans. Larger organizations will restrict these capabilities and build in alerting to notify organization watchdogs that someone is searching people's history. Bottom line, always assume that your chat history can be pulled and you'll be fine.
Thanks. I have a question, my co workers are able to access my teams through their mobile devices. How is it possible? When ever i ping someone every one are able to see what i am sending?
Sorry for the delay. I'm not entirely sure how that would be possible. They would need your credentials to do that. I'd suggest checking in with your Microsoft administrator
This depends on how your organization configured your Microsoft environment. By default I don't believe that calls are recorded and your organization would likely need to communicate this to you if they were doing it.
what if without searching keywords, the employer downloaded the complete chat log, and used some type of AI,like copilot for instance to check who is most likely to churn or who deserves reward, who is genuine?. etc. does his make sense?
Curious… can they see copy/pasted images? Not an image file but say you take a screenshot then paste it in the teams chat; there’s no file name or anything. Can they see the image?
I have questions. Do my boss still able to track the messages that I have deleted? It says permanently deleted from my side but not from the other person side. Can my boss track and read all the deleted conversation i have made?
Yes, deleting a message on Teams just removes it from the view but does not permanently delete it where the data is stored. If you delete a message, your boss can still view it.
Users currently are unable to delete an entire chat. If you're referring to when you delete a chat message, yes your employer would technically still be able to see those messages. Thanks for watching
What if I use my work teams to take a call from a user that is not part of the work "team" and is basically an outsider? Are those recordings/videos available for admins if they want?
If you recorded the external call then yes it doesn't matter if the participant was external, your employer would still be able to access it. Hope this helps
To the best of my knowledge, data that is purged via retention policies are not recoverable and would not be displayed through this approach once the retention period has lapsed. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
If you're talking about the Viber app then they wouldn't be able to see if using the Microsoft products as it's a separate app. They may be able to using other tools however if the apps is used on a corporate device
if the employer pay an third party company for Digital Forensics Analysis? Maybe uses the technics of Wireshark apps via capture packets ?@@LuiIacobellis
A recent update introduced the "Delete chat" option, if I was to delete a whole chat with another employee, will the employer still be able to find it?
@katechiew4940 yes, he mentioned that it auto stores on an employer location as soon as you hit send. You can both delete the chat you had but it's already stored elsewhere
That is entirely up the organization's configuration of their Microsoft environment. In most cases, the answer is yes the data can be made accessible via backups if it's required. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
In theory that would work but it's likely your organization would have backups they could access (if you have mail on premises) and if mail is in the cloud then they could still access it. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
Well nothing would stop a malicious eDiscovery admin/mgr to do any search on anyone, using a generic word which is likely to exist in all mails and chats and just peruse all the results.
Can your employer look at your call log? For example: whilst watching training videos I like to put my self in a call by myself. Which can last an hour. Is this data available? As I am sure it would be strange to the employer and might cause some questions
Bro your boss can see everything LMAO, and with the latest Microsoft 365 updates, they now have some stupid charts and graphs to make the data-view easier hahaha
If you're account is deleted data will still be retained and this is also influenced by the retention policies an organization puts into place. Hope this helps and thanks for watching
